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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It will be an improvement over mammography by detecting abnormal cells in an early stage, is radiation-free, and is 2-5 times less expensive than mammographs. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. It uses optical spectroscopy to analyze the physiological content of cells and report back abnormalities.

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V1 Data Hangout – Episode 2: How do you manage your data?

Version One Ventures

It turns out, much of our portfolio has some sort of wiki for their data – whether that’s on Google Docs or Github. Our teams are big fans of Github Pages vs. Github Wiki itself. With Github Pages, you can pull requests and edit like a wiki. Perhaps that’s because we’re all still in the early stages in the data science journey.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap Without Selling Your Soul

Both Sides of the Table

In part one I covered the need for early-stage enterprise software companies to build up professional services staff to ensure successful implementation projects. This group was given access to our R&D wiki so they could monitor what we were producing and what we were planning. So we tried to use this to our advantage.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Even In Uncertainty Startups Need A Workplace Policy

YoungUpstarts

Create an internal wiki. There’s not many endeavours as exciting and energizing than being part of an early stage startup. Getting everyone settled in and productive faster is a win for all. Put all of your resources and paperwork in a place where everyone can openly swap work-related information.

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